Coating concrete structures with plastics
Dampproofing contractors
Concrete coating, glazing or sealing
Waterproofing contractors
Weather stripping installation
Window shade and blind installation
238910 Site preparation contractors
Boring, for building construction
Core drilling and test boring for construction
Grave excavation contractors
Test boring for construction
238990 All other specialty trade contractors
Artificial turf installation
Cable splicing (except electrical or fiber optic)
Cleaning building interiors during and immediately after construction
Dewatering contractors
Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets)
House moving (i.e., raising from one site, moving, and placing on a new foundation)
Manufactured (mobile) home set up and tie-down work
Posthole digging
Sandblasting, building exterior
Scaffold erecting and dismantling
DWD 102.02(3)(a)(a) If the employer's primary type of business activity is specified in Figure DWD 102.02 (2), the department may not consider the employer as being within the provisions of s.
108.18 (2) (c), Stats.
DWD 102.02(3)(am)
(am) The department shall determine that the provisions of s.
108.18 (2) (c), Stats., apply to an employer whose primary type of business activity in this state is listed in the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System, Sector 23 – Construction but not in Figure DWD 102.02 (2), if any of the following factors apply:
DWD 102.02(3)(am)1.
1. The primary business activity of the employer in this state involves the improvement of real property rather than improvement or refurbishing of personal property.
DWD 102.02(3)(am)2.
2. Employers within the same listing in the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System, Sector 23 – Construction as the employer customarily suspend or significantly curtail business operations in this state for regularly recurring periods because of climatic conditions or because of the seasonal nature of the employment.
DWD 102.02 Note
Note: The North American Industry Classification System standard is available at
https://www.census.gov/naics/.
The 2022 version is on file with the legislative reference bureau and with the bureau of legal affairs of the department's division of unemployment insurance at 201 E. Washington Ave, E-300, Madison, Wisconsin 53703.
DWD 102.02 History
History: Cr.
Register, June, 1990, No. 414, eff. 7-1-90; emerg. renum. from ILHR 110.15, eff. 2-19-93; renum. from ILHR 110.15,
Register, May, 1993, No. 449, eff. 6-1-93; am. (1),
Register, September, 2000, No. 537, eff. 10-1-00;
CR 18-033: am. (1), (3) (a) 1. and 2., renum. (3) (a) (intro.) to (3) (am) (intro.) and am., r. (3) (b)
Register May 2019 No. 761, eff. 6-1-19; correction in numbering of (3) (a) 1. and 2. made under s.
13.92 (4) (b) 1., Stats.,
Register May 2019 No. 761;
CR 22-010: am. (2), r. and recr. Figure 2, am. (3) (am) (intro.), 2. Register June 2022 No. 798, eff. 7-1-22. DWD 102.03
DWD 102.03 Payors of sickness or accident disability payments: contribution rates. A person not previously subject to the contribution requirements under ch.
108, Stats., which becomes an employer subject to these provisions because of sickness or accident disability payments under s.
DWD 110.06, shall be subject to the initial contribution rate under s.
108.18, Stats., for each of the first 3 calendar years.
DWD 102.03 History
History: Emerg. renum. from ILHR 110.11 (8) and am., eff. 2-19-93; renum. from ILHR 110.11 (8) and am.,
Register, May, 1993, No. 449, eff. 6-1-93; am.
Register, September, 2000, No. 537, eff. 10-1-00.
